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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1878-02-20

Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1878-02-20 page 1

4 nmrnrsi ZJ W 4." COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1878. NO. 43. i VOL. XXXIX. ULLEY. BOOK BLANK MlNlIFACTUREUN. PrlutrM. Hinders, Nlaf loners and I.i tal Itinnk I'nblisuers. BOOK BINDING Of etwy Dtmiplim, by the Edition or Single Volume. Opera House ap4 Building (Up Stairs), COLUMBUS. FALL IIP WINTER WOOLENS. GEO. T. DUVALL, Merchant Tailor! 187 HUHTH UIUU AT. EORGE W. LEASO Bookseller, Stationer & Newsdealer, Of SOUTH HIGH HOP. (0iiONlto Nintff Monse) BOOKS. KincBlev'H All BaintH' Day 1 W Ciinlf'rt Orthmlnxv 1 Cook's Tran-cendontaliBin 1 6(1 (look's Bioinj-y 1 fit) Kfnt'd Love Letter 1 6(1 Mooto'h Uncollected Writing) 2 fto ttrtrdner'H Home Iutoriorn 1 60 Groen'H History of the Enghtdi People; vol. 1 Count MMtke'H lnlti-rn Iron) Hueln, m , 2 60 , aft looby's Bilnini in HieliMh Century; a V' JUorrirVn Bt'ninniug of the Middle Avs Wallfipo's RiiSriin Hiikor'H TinUoy McCoan'fl Egypt Nnwnonih'rj 'opulur Aatrimomy l.nilmtliVs fJpnlocv oU f W . 1 o . 4 0(1 , 4 (Mi It 7.r) . 4 00 4 Oi Nicholaou's Ancient Life on the Earth.... M 00 Child Life in I'lelureH 1 p llr Mnrvfl'ti Ahmil. t)lil Storv TuHlTrt. ...... . ' 0 Uodwiii'H Cycioproilia of Hioynipliy 6 Otf file.. Etc, Eto. BBp'2(ltnli) j)iotalc$ottninl UlVa . : High, IVurl ami i llitM'l St. . tiMI.i'. A. W. I'lUNl IKl'i COMLY & TRANCISCO, l-CIII.IHlinia ami 1-I;U'UI1:T"IIH. A. W. KItANCISCO, (leneral Manager. LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. couereNH. Fkb. 19. Senate A bill was reported to rinutn W. A. Hammond, lale surgeou ...i ne iIib Armv Dill DaSBi'd : lo re instate the names of Pensioners of the war a( 1812 lint introauccu: immii,B i'- m.,ii..n .riu.it. to certain heirs and partiei for a part of the Fort Dearborn reservation ... im,S.. n In, bill remilatino- the corn- ,Biitinn of nostmaslers was diacuued at tome length, but without definite action. If.,,... 'PliM i-nntei-ted eltetiou C8S3 A,.i,ii v Dam-ll. from the Fourth Louis. liKtrirt. wkb taken un, and Louisiana allairs were iliwuMed duiiiig the Miiamder ol' the itav, anil wtihnut arriving hi nuj eonc'.usi in on the case in iiie9tion. Ueiiernl ANwe.nbly. id Smtile Kills iutr.idiited : Re ..aiii, iimrroittration clause of the Iti traliuii act; iuuvidinf lor the annual exam miiinn of lile idiiirauce eomnaniea, and re- siiiciiiifr invest nisnts to United States liotii UI,,l nmrtirMfn.H mum real estate. . oMW-Tue lit.use met at half part two o'clock, and tu-inK without a quorum, busineps waE transacted. indication for Temmsee und the Ohio Valley, and Lower Lake region Fulling birmmter, increasing eouthmd to mutheasl wind, chmh weather and rain, partly turn ivj to mow in the last section, and fdlowed in the western portion by rising barometer and colder northuesterly wmds. (.Sold cloned in New York ycaterduj at 1013 NEWARK. Com-luslim of ilia Coullor Hilnlor T.lul-I'lio Vnllt, "NoiUulIiy Special to the Ohio btato Journal. Nkwakk, Fell. 10. The nreuineiit in Hid cane of Coulter cloned before noon am theciai n given to the jury, who have iuat now at halfimi-t keven returned one of t!in moat righ-teoita verdicts ever rendered. The Court room has been nicked to sufl'ocal ion all day. and when ii. -o.,i;i "Not, Ouiltv." was nounced, it was inipoBible to control the enlliiisiaam of the great crowct, auu snouu f "fj ' n. "Thank Ood." feemed to is mm frnni everv month. This was the moat exciting case tried here for fifteen years.) Klriekt.u will. iirlilyalH. 8iclnl to ihe Ohio Stale Journal. Mt. Vebnon, Feb, 19 Mr. Anthony . Banning, an old and highly respectable citizen of this place, was stricken with paralyaia this morning. The entire left side is helpless, and his condition is considered extremely critical. Mr. A. A. Thayer, who is lying very low with consumption, was similarly afflicted on yesterday. t'knrfroii IHaiiiltiHeil. Chicago, Feb. 19 Htale Attorney Milla to-day bad the charges of conspiracy made against Major Woods, State Insurance Examiner, in connection with the officers of the defunct Protection Life Insurance company, dismissed, he having satiilied himself by a rigid examination that the charges were without the slightest foundation. This action is regarded as an honorable acquittal of the Htate Examiner of any criminality in the matter. I.onlNlniiH 'Airulm. New Orleans. Feb. 19. There is no decision yet in Ihe case of Anderson's apnea! for a new trial. The House has unseated Louis J. Souer, KepublicaD, and by a vole of iiftynine to liftvfour. seated Judge Barber, Democrat, aa a member for Avoyelles parish, on the ground that Souer had never beed a resident of the parish. Robert L. Case, the convicted New York Life Insurance l'resiilent, has been released on $25,000 bail, pending the hearing of a motion for a new trial. SIEBEHT BY TELEGRAPH TO TEX OHIO STATS JO USUAL WASHINGTON. 'he.Acklin-DarreU Contested Election Case. The Tixt of a Discussion on Lou isiana Affairs and the Southern Policy. Hale's Speech on the President's Conciliatory Efforts. Gat field's Tiew and Review of the Situation. The President's Faith and Hope Larger than the Faith and Hope of Most People." A Sharp Passage as to tlio Punish ment of Rebels. Situation iu ilio House Nilver BUI. tlie Stephens and Bland Indicate Acquies cence In the Senate Amendments. IXPORT TRADE CONVEHTION Washington, Feb. 19. The National Convention of the United States Export Trade assembled to-day. John D. Hayes, Uhicago, was appointed lempo- rarv Chairman, and John Varmolo Sec- retarv. There was a large attendance of delegates, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, merchants' exchanges, city councils and various manufacturing asso- ations being represented from all sec tions of the Unmi. BANK NOTE EXCIIANflF. The House committee on Banking and Currency to-day authorized their Chair man, Mr. liucltner, to report Ins bin which propones to substitute for national Bank notes a new description of Treasury notes, which shall be receivable in pay ment of customs dues and all claims or demands against the United States, ex cept obligations made payable in com by existing laws, and shall tie receivable at nar for four per cent. bond. lhey previously heanl the Comptroller oi tne Currency on an argument against the but. He contended its enactment would be nu infringement of the vested rights and that the Government has no Consti tutional power to take this action in re gard toJNalional Daubs whilo their cnar- tera continue in existence. TIIE RliTUNING 110AIID TIUAI.S Representative Ellis states that in nrotrncttd interview with President Hayes, last night, no received assurance that the Administration had never con teniplaled interference by the United Slates Courts r r otherwise with the action of the courts or State government of Louisiana, and that while Ihe President regretted the prosecution of Anderson and Wells, it would not alter bis course to ward the Stale or the neonle of Louis lairn. It was a matter which involved their honor, and be trusted their honor. Mr. Ellis also stated he fully informer the President of the condition of allairs in Louisiana and correcteii what ho (Ellis) considered errors and misstatements of Secretary Sherman and nthen in tegard to the Ueturning Hoard trials. NATIONAL AGHICUI.TURAI. COKURI.S9. The National Agricultural Cnngrera met this afternoon. About one hundred deli vales were iiresnt. Owing to the ill ness of President Flags:, Vice President Jones called the Convention to order and read the address of Ihe President. HF8UMPTION MITRAL. The Senate committee of Finance will lake tin the House bill fur the repeal o the specie resumption act Tuesday next, XI.VIIl oiiifrtm-First Nesslou SENATE. Mi. Snencer. from the committee on Mil- ilnrv AtlUirs. renortcd favorably on the bill lor the relief of Wm. A. Hammond, late Surgeon General of the Army, and it was placed on the calnndar. It authorizes the President to review the proceedings of the general court martial in bis case, and to annul una s t aside tne unatngs anu sentence of said court martial. If. after such re view, ho shall deem it right auduronerto do eo; nud in the event of the lindings being set aside, the President is authorized to place the naino of W m. A . Hammond on the retired list 01 me army as ourgeou un-eral: provided, in case of such restoration lie shall not bo allowed hack pay or allow anees of anv kind whatever. Mr. Ferry called up the Senate bill to reg-nlai.ft ilia eomnenstion ot uoiituiasters auc for other purposes, which was diacus.ed at some length. Messrs. Kdmunds, Hamlin, Davis of n est Virginia, and others, expressed themselves in lavor of restoring- the franking privilege. Mr. Udmunds, during his remarks, said the denial of the privilege to members ol (tnniress rather imnlied the members were enguged in other things than public business or else soiu inctr lrunas, unu no uenieu uolu nrtliusft imnutationa. Further consideration of the bill was then postponed until to-morrow. Mr. Matthews, bv reauesl. introduced hill inakine a nre-emntiou grant to heirs of Jena Baptisle Beuhiem, deceasod, for a part of the B'ort Dearborn reservation ut Chicago and to confirm the nurchasersof other parts in their titles and to convey to Chicago the streets and alleys ot Baia reservation, in ferred. At. the exniration of the morning hour, Mr. Wilheracalled up for consideration the Senate bill amending the laws granting pensions to soldif ra and sailors ot the war 1812 and their widows. The committee reported nn amendment to the ecctien authorizing the restoration to the nention rollB ot all personB now surviv ing heretofore pensioned on account of scr-viraa in the war of 1812. or any of the In dian wars, whose names wero Btricken herefrom on account of disloyalty, so as nr.-iv MathAtall Buch Doraons should be re- stored whoso diajtbilitiea had been removed, or who hud made application lor sucn ro Mr. Infills said there wero not more than 0110 hundred men directed by this provision ol" the bill, ti9 nearly all distinctions between leyai people ana reDeis una ueen uumenutu, ml f.u thprft wnB mi noasibilitv nf a rostoru- tion of national unity without having such obliteration complete, the bill buouiu . bo passed. Alter some further discussion, it agreed that the words of Ihe amendment were not necessary to restore to the pension rolls the names of those persons Btricken therefrom on account of disloyalty, and Air. W ithers, in charge ot the bill, witbdruw it. The other amendmenta of the committee nf a verbal character, wore airreed to. The question being on the third readinjf of tne Din, tne mil wa8 tnen reau tue mira unit.' and passed yeaB 47, najB 8. houik. Immediately after the reading of the journal, Mr. Harris, Chairman of tho Elec tion committee, called up the election case : of Acklin v. Darrellyfrom the fourth Lou isiana district, the majority report being in favor ot Acklin, the contestant, and the i minority being in favor of Darrel, the sitting ' member : I Mr, Hale tried to obtain the iloor to reply 1 a speech made a few days ago by Mr. j Gibson, but withdrew his request with the understanding that he should be allowed the oor uunng me ueoate on iuo oieuuuu caao. Mr. Stephens To-morrow, or as soon as in pr aft is disnnaed of. I shall move to pro ceed to the business on the Speaker's table, with a view ot taking up the Hou3e bill, hich has come back trom the benato witp amendments. I state further, my object shall be to move to concur in those amend ments. Applause on the Republican side. J Mr: Butler of Massachusetts Every sup porter of the bill will vote againBt that. JUT. Ill till U CiJJlMIUCU U1L 11D unu mivum to make the same motion as the gentleman from Georgia intimated he would make. Mr.uucunersaiu ne naainienueuiuia murii-ii to move to refer the bill to the commit tee on Banking and Currency, but he was not particular how the bill would bo brought up. Mr. Harris, iu opening his speech on the electioo, said he was not sorry the Silver bill would not come up to-day, as its friends seem to have no concert of action and the success of the bill would be promoted by postponement. At the end of Mr. Harris's speech, Mr. Hale obtained the floor and referred to the remarks made Thursday by Air. Gibson, that he f Hale) had taken occasion in season and out of soasou to denounce the people of Louisi ana. Ho denied ho had ever aenounceu those ueoole. On the contrary, he had taken occasion heretofore on the floor of the Houao speak p.ainly upon the gno nances hich had existed in that State and which he had earnestly regretted. Ho had been profoundly moved with uib ob servation of the course of events in Louis iana for the past year, and especially tor the Dast six months. In the beginning he had watched the experiment made there hopefully, believing that tho magnanimous and conciliatory course pursued by the President toward that people would be met by a ffenerouB and neartv return, tint nehau seen that tho honor and plighted support and pledged return tor generosity had ueen lor-feited; that the resolutions of the State Legislatures went for nothing, and political nmsecutions wero urned to-day iu Louis- Una with the same spirit which reminded im of tho earlier days. Ho reviewed the course of t vents in Louisiana from the close of Grant's Administration, bringing forward nrnniiuent v tho tact that the title ot the 1'ackara government anu uie racsaru Lprrislature had been settled bv the Elector al Commission, it boing based upon the count of the Returning Hoard, the same Hoard whise action in tho capo ot the I'reBi- dent had been confirmed by the Electoral Commission, whose decision bad been ac cepted by both houses of Congress. Its title had also since been affirmed by the Henate in the admission to a eeac iu mat uouy oi Kelloirs. elected to the Hcnnto by the rack' ard Legislature. He spoke of a call of that .legislature on the i-eueral Government lor rOiet'llOU UK tun 3 b uuintauu iuicuu. tic d not know and nobody could what were the rtllrctions that passed through the mind of the President on that subject, but he could gee the President, looking on the subject th a desira tor pence, with a disposition for conciliation, with a tendency toward teudernc8. determined to start out and com mit his admiuititratiou to ft course not of repression or strong iron hand upon that people, but cf concession, of mugna-nimit.v. and to diaret'M'd tho c-tll of the Leg islature of Louiamni.. Ho went on to speak of the sendinir of a Commission to Louisi ana by tho President, the result ot whose visit win the disintegration of the Packard urm-prnnient and the installation of the Mictions government, anu ue ueciareu mat no experiment iu tnai uirecuon una ever baen made so thoroughly as the President had made this one. The Legislature and Governor Nicholls had promised a pardon for all political otlenses. He asked the House to ui r n back its mind and ho asked President Haves to turn back his mind six months, to the 1st of May, 1877. Would anybody have been found to predict then that in ega than sixty ciavs tuo men wno, foremost of al l,bud made themselves otl'ensive o the Louisiana Democracy, because they had carried out the law of the btate and had thereby become political offenders against that party in Louisiana, and throughout the country, would nave oeen prosecutea ; Would tne rresiueui nave uneveu u i Would anvone have believed it? Mr. Hale went on to amue that there was no legal ground for the prosecution of the Anderson Kelurning Hoard, who had been for twenty years elected to the Legislature from ins own pariah, wno nad always stoou high in public and private estimation, and who had never been before considered an outcast und a malefactor. In confirmation of his statement that there was a compact that there should be no political prosecutions in Louisiana, be quoted from the letter ot ii. V Kmnllev. in the Now York 'Jnbnne. Mr. a'e then went on to say that there was a profound impression that the proceed- incr iu Louisiana had its root, its main sor ucr. KB source eisewnere mat mere were many wno rjoueveu mat me wuuio pur-forniunce had been dictated and driven for ward by restless man who did not mean ever tn mlmit that the Presidential title had been settled. The President of the United States u Uarmntr to-dav a lesson ot misulaced con fidence. H was the old, old story. There had been nothing which the President could do to make efficacious his course toward the Hnulh. which he hid not done. There had lirin nn encaiiMiroment which could be held out to that section showing the President's crond faith, which the President had nnt nwtrtpri to. lie had amiointed Cabinet ministers, foreign ministers and other high officials from lhat section, because he had been anxious that it the experiment lniiea, nnhnilvfthnuldbu ab e to buy that it had tail ed trom any lacit ou lib piiri,iiiiu uuv m. Ilin rut urn rPfniVPi1 I TO IB 1.0 i S ana C in rmwbiHlon. he intimated that it might be tho constitutional duty of the President to see that no miustice was done to a cui.en of the United BtattB. Mr. Gibson replied to Mr. Hale, lie de nied that there had been any such compact f.ir immunity for crime as had been asserted by Mr. Hale. He portrayed the Btuto of af fairs ia LioniHinna uunng iacu years, when no guilty man bad been pun- i-hprf and w hen no honest man had felt his lifo secure from lawlessness, but since the Nicholls Government bad been inaugurated, no man, whether poor or rich who committed a crime had escaped pun-iahmfmr.. Ho denied that tho Keturninc Board was being persecuted on political grounds. Who had anythiug to gain by .hut? Certain v not the people ot Louisi ana. Certainly not the National Democratic imrtv. for Hayes's title had been passed ..nnn hv (Innorftss. The Upturning Board was being prosecuted for forgery. That tho crime of forgery was trivial, in eo far as the recent election was concerueu, uui it, wno crimfi nf enormous proportions, and man who falsified the returns 60r.i,.li- fi How at civil liberty and free (rovern'ment. If the movement in Lou- iuicmn which finnearcd to bo a very simpli ono, was to excite the public mind, to excite animosities, which be had hoped weresieer-i.irrin Ninrtiifi-n cnmmuni t ic9. ho should de- n,.va it mo tlmnanv other man. Revert- tn t ha .h nrwpq nf a couina-jt butweun the Ai.thnriiiPH nf Louisiana aud the Federal Government, he denied it not only tor thi Nicholls Government, not only for hi friends, but for the President and his Cabi net. They could not b-3 guilty ol sucn crime. Mr. Garfield noxt obtained the floor and said that the Rentlcman from Pennsylvania (Clymer) called upon the people of Louisi ana to nc n ma uemocniLiu iimiy u " tho preat crime of the Presidential count, Thin Im frtiirltohn tfhnriicteri.ed as the enter ing point of the wedge which was to drive homo to what whs called the "great crime of tho century." Ho did not intend to make an inllammatory speech. If there was people on earth iliat had a right to ba wosry at heart of politics and partisanship, it was the American people. He pictured three stnges which a country must undergo in transition from a state of war to a state of peace. First, there wrb the military Btage, when bloody battles ths soldiers met U decide by the power of Btrength the ques tions involved, next came ine stage mat was semi-civil and semi-military. It was at is Btage that General Grant bad taken the reins of the Government, and he had endeavored to keep hiB administration within the provinces of civil and military power. when he naa been succeeded by r resident Hayes, that gentleman had thought it was possible to declare that the semi-military period had gone and that the period had come when ody peace methods should inaugurated. In his iudtrment. President Haves was an ontionist. who looked only on the bright side of human nature and disliked to look at its dark side. His (resident Hayes's) faith and hope had been larger than the faith and hone of most people. He had gone forward to the verge of the Constitution in ottering both hands in fellowship and in offering the olive branch of peace. He had gone to the limits of his power in order to bring about an era of good reeling and paciti cation, no man nad suarea more heartily the aspirations of the President than he (Garfield) bad. He had tried in every way to aid tho President in his project, and in order to do that there was a world of things to be forgotten and forgiven on both sides. If the spirit and letter of the law had been adhered to at the end of the rebellion there would have been no end to the spectacles of prosecution and punishment under the law signed by George Washington against those who had committed crime and treason. Mr. Gibson asked if Mr Garfield held to the theory that every man in the Confederate sercice had been guilty of traason? Cries of ''Ye?," from the Republican side. Mr. Wirheld replied tnat he was unwilling eo back to that qut-Btion. He would only answer by asking the gentleman to look at the naked statute passed by the First Congress; and signed by George Washington, and then let him, us a lawyer, answer his own question. He went on to say that the President carried out his purpose further than any other American citizen had ever carried a great purpose to accomplish a result.Mr. House Has he had tho support of the ReouUieati nartv in the North in his efforts at conciliation and n storing peace to the country f I Mr. uariieia no nas naa tueir support' just in so far us they had reason to believe that a reciprocity ot reeling would lonow isellorts lAppiuuso on the uepuoncan side. There is, however, a different de- greeut laitn among my brtthren uere as to how far that reciprocity would go. Mr. House asked it the entuo ltepuoucan party, with here andtheie an exception, had not opened a war upon the President for his attempt to conciliate the country, and charged hiui with deserting his party ? Applause on the democratic side and cries ut ino, r, on tho Republican side.J Mr. Garheld replied that there had always been men here aud there who distrusted the result of that policy, and h whs moved to see that liiimbcr had been increasing week by week, and recently hour by hour. Ap- iau8?.J Mr. Waddell asked if the troops h-id not been removed from the Sonih as a matter of constitutional duty, and did not, the Repub- ican party make war on 1 tie President lor thatf Mr. Garfield replied that the withdrawal of the troops from tho Governor's room and office in New Orleans was a constitutional uty. As a political Etudent, ho (Garheld) had ntvor doubted, and did not doubt to- that Packard had br-en honestly and fairly elected Governor of Louisiana. Ap- anse on tlio uepuiitican eide.j neierriug to the Commission, which had been sent down bv Prcsideut Have?, he had declared hat it that uommission had undertaken to ;t the members ot one Legislature lutoau- her. that was nn improper bxecutive in terference with local self government. Mr. C ha mors naked it Mr. Uarheld bad otsiid some d ivsoiro that at the Wormley conference, it had been agreed that the troops houlu be withdrawn f Mr. Garfield replied that the gentleman was mistaken. He had never heard of such an acrcement. He did not mean to say that it was wrong tor the f resident to send Commission to Louisiana in order to ob tain information, but he meant that that Commission had no right to interfere in the fot uiation of a SUte Legislature. Mr. Gibson sUled that he believed mat the Commission had had no such instructions, or no purpose to accomplish such an end. Mr. Garfield That is tho gentleman's opinion. Let us hope it is true, ite went on to say that, the nciion nf the President in removing the troops iml teen looaeu upon bv tho oe-O'de of Louisiana as a generous and magnanimous action, and they had gar- anded meu who pertormed it wmi tne ri lies pram?. In that era ot reconciliation, ooiu sides had fortrotteu and f'urciven much. There hod been bleeding hearts in the land at the recitals i f the massacres at Hamburg and Klleuton, but those horrible stories were never heard of now. Why ? Because there had been a tilent determination to let all that trouble chapter sleep. All the out-rages which had been 'committed in Louisiana during the late election hfld been covered with the veil of oblivion. Who had begun tills latter revival ot the chapter f While tint work of conciliation had been going forward, there had commenced at th j North (he uHirmed it boldly) tho process of laying tho keel Cor another Presidential campaign, and the order had gone forth to Louisiana to open upon the members ot tho ueturning hoard, 10 ais-guise it under the form of a State proceed ing, but to enter her wedge, and men iue Democratic party would summon all its Btreneth to drive tht wedge to its head and stamp the great fraud of tho, election aj it deserves. After Mr. Garfield coucluded tho House adjourned. CRIME AND CASUALTY. .Harder and MMclde. St. Louis, Feb, 19. John Guuibinger, accompanied by a lady, regiatereil at Hie Lintlell laft night. Thej ate supper and wero ppsiuiud to a room. About five o'clock tliis afternoon the room waB enter. ed and Ihe bodies of the man and the wo man were found lying on the bed. The woman had been shot in the left temple and the man in the riiiht. 'J he pistol, which had done the work, wan in the man's hand. The man waa ulcnlitied as John uumnin eer. aired twentVBeven. a oariteeper ior Harry Lyda, a wealthy eaioon-Keeper and brewer. The woman wan Maggie Lvda. aced ninotccn, daughter of Hum- binder's employer. Her father had forbidden marriage between them. The young woman waa pregnant. Row Aiiiuuk SttidnntH. New York, Feb. 19 An Evening Post fp;cinl ay : A serious affray occurred last ntcht in the Trenton, New Jersey, Colleere between two SonhomoreB and eight Freshmen, in which one ot tne Sophomores was dangerously "hot. The Sophomores' room was entered by the I'reshmen, who Uouna tho Hopnomoiea 10 chain, shaved their heads and left them tied. Other HophomoreB followed the freshrneft; shots were exchanged ana ai-terburg, of the SophomoreB, was wounded in the thigh. Ureat excitement prevails. One of the Hrnn aii on lilt Wiiy Home. St. Lours, Feb. 19. John Esno, the express robber, left hero to-day, in charge of detectives, for Brownstown, Indiana, where he in to be tried lor roDDing me Adams Express car on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad of $18,000 on the 16th of October, 180B. He was released from the Missouri penitentiary yesterday, on a writ of habeas corpus, having served ten years for" the robbing of the Daviess county treasury. The prisoner is one of the famous Keno gang, half a dozen of the members of which were hung near Seymour, Indiana, FOREIGN. Austria and Germany on the Eastern Situation. Great Distress Among tlio Soldiers at Erzoroum, One Ballot for Pops Election. Without an Seventy Millions of People Starving iu China. Gigantic Calamity with Which the Imagination Falls to Cope Aueirlit nnd Iho Eastern Trouble. Vienna, Feb. 19. Prince Auereperg, President of the Austrian Council of Ministers, in reply to an interpellation in the Home of Keichsrath to-day, Raid the Government, on being informed of the preliminaries of peace, frankly stated its position regarding them, declaring it could not consider as binding any arrangement between the belligerent affecting the interests of this monarchy or the rights of the signatories of the treaty of Paris as long as such arrangements were not agreed to by the Powers. At the same time the Government looks upon the initiative in the convocation of the Conference from a standpoint regarding a peace basis, and its proposal for the assembling of the Conference is accepted by all Cabinets. Kussia has declared in favor of a Congress, not a Conference, and that it should not meet in the Capital of any signatory State. Negotiations on this subject are approaching a conclusion. We expect an early meeting of the Congress consequently the Government is not in position to make a detailed statement of its views. It ia bound, however, to declare generally that it cannot regard the peace stipulations as consonant with the interests of the monarchy. This reservation does not apply to the amelioration of the condition ot the Christians, hut to such provisions aH might involve an alteration of the balance of power in the Kaat to the detriment of Austria. The Government confidently hopes the European Council will reach an understanding and a solution satisfactory to all. In any case, the Government in the present grave circumstances will consider it itaduty and mitsion to secure due recognition of the political and material interests and dignity of the monarchy, UlNmitrcU and flift Alilnde or Uot. Kiauy, Berlin, Feb. 19. In the Reichstag today, in response to an interpellation of Bennejizen, Bismarck stated he had little practically now to tell. He then discussed the separato provisions of the pro-liuiinarieaof pence and showed Germany's interests are not affected in such a manner as to oblige her to deviate from her previous attitude He described the apprehensions respecting the Dardanelles as not justified by the nctual situation. Regarding the position lo be taken by Germany he said he could not now give any oflioial information as the documents only came into his possession to-day. He did not believe in a European war as the Powers who supported Russia would have to assume tho resnonsibilily of the legacy lefi by Turkey. Germany was in favor of hasleiiinyr the assembling of the confer ence, which perhaps will meet within the first forlniL'ht of March, lie reiected em phatically all suggestions that Germany should intervene and declared sne was willing perfectly to mediate, but did not wish to exercise the cilice of the arbiter of Europe. Prince liisinarck also stated that Rus sian cthcial cuuiuitinication maue ii. cer tain that the chief interest of Gjrmany, namely the fieedum of the water, such as the straits and the Danube, for com-meice, would be maintained. He believed it was to Russia's interest to come to an understanding, and not have a fear of complications with Austria or En- land constantly impending. Ihe Blip- position that might forcibly compel other Powers lo accept a settlement to which they objected, seemed entirely out of the question. He denied that the Russians nad pusneu iorwara meir irrops uuuur the cloak of negotiations. Advance In Amarlrnu Ntncug. London. Feb. 19 Tne Times says United States bonds have surprised many neonle hv advancing instead of falling on the news that the Silver bill passed in a manner that will insure its becoming a taw in much .its present shape. We have always said the public was not selling the stock to any appreciable extent, and the weakness which has now and then char acterized the bonds -was due as much as anything to the passing fears of dealers and to speculative-selling, which only made the market harder. Hence on receipt of better New York prices and because the worst was now known, tho mar ket naturally rose by the mere eliortfl ol those who had sold to buy back, iiesides it has been noticed that the limitation put upon the amount of silver that may be coined within a given time, is itself tan tamount to making silver a subsidiary coinage, at all events tor some consider able time, so that there is little alarm felt and holders stick to their bonds. The only thing that will lower the prices of those tor any other high class oi biockb just now is dearer money. Seventy JHHIIoiin nf 'liinese stnrv UK- London. Feb. 19. It ia slated on au thority which ean not be questioned, that seventy millions ot human neingB are, now starving in the famine Btricken provinces of North China. Imagination fails to cone with so gigantic a calamity The Times says : we cannot notini mai if the Chinese have found their way to America from the comparatively prosper ous Eastern provinces by thousands, they will pour forth in myriads trom the tam- me stricken districts of the .norm as soon as a way is opened to them. The Chinese difficulty may speedily become a greater menace to the future of the united (states than the negro difficulty waB at its worst. Negro immigration was never voluntary and ceased with the abolition of the slave trade, whilo the Chinese tide begins to flow in force. It iB difficult to Bee where and when it will stop. Tcrrllile Sliirorlus; lu anil Anon Erzeruuni. Constantinople, Feb. 19. A dispatch from Emrouin, the 10th iuat., says : The Russian troops aro Buffering from an epi demic disease and are short of provisions. Negotiations for the surrender of Kize rouin are still proceeding, and are expect ed to conclude to-morrow. Meanwhile the Russian investment continues. Three thousand families are now in Erzeroum in terrible distress, A famine ia believed to be inevitable in the spring. The weather is still intensely cold. Irian. Boronifu Franehlae Kfjeriod London, Feb. 19. In the House of Commons to-night the motion offrred by Weldon, Home Kule member for Kit dare county, in favor of equalizing the OSBORN DRY GOODS and CARPETS! OPEN AT THE.OXiD STAND, 128 SOUTH HIGrH STREET. RECEIVING Irish borough franchise with that of En gland and Scotland, waa opposed by the Government and rejected 134 against 126. The announcement of the close vote was greeted with loud opposition cheerB, Bright and the Liberals supported the motion. A ttoUlalon Between Ncrvla and KuHNla l'jrolmltle. London, Feb, 19. A telegram from Senilin reports that M. Ristics, the Servian Prime Minister, has drawn up a memorandum to the Czir, claiming the whole of Old Bervia. The Servians are resolved not to evacuate the conquered territory unless forcibly expelled. It is stated that Russia has decided to add the pashalic of Nish to Bulgaria, A collision between Servia aud RuBsia is therefore probable. The lluufereiice anil tlie RritUll Fleet. St. Petersihiro, Feb. 19. The Agence Husse states that it is probable that the meeting of the Powere will merely take the form of a Conference. The Turks are be coming more recalcitrant in regard lo peace negotiations. I he Agence Bays the Russians must npproach nearer to Constantinople, if the British fleet remains in the Sea of Marmora. The withdrawal of the Ueet to Basika Bay would, however, solve the difficulty. Prolmhle flume of the Cuban Iasnr-reetlon.Havana, Feb. 19 The Official Ga zette publishes the basis of the peace conditions. They are the same as those telegraphed hence on tlie 14th inst, All the insurgent chiefs have given in their adhesion to the conditions. General satisfaction is expressed ail over the island and peace is no longer doubted. Captain General Jovellar has returned from the interior. The Ti.lllerle to be Kazcd-l'ro. IiohimI Abilieallou. Paris, Feb. 19 The Council General of the Seine lias adopted a resolution recommending the Government to rszo the ruins of the Tuilleriea. A rumor comes from the Hague that the King of Holland thinks of abdicating in favor of tiie Priuce of Orange, his eldest sun, MlnlNter l.ayard and Nerver PaNUa. Constantinople, Feb. 19. It is understood that Server Pasha, Minister ol roreigu A flairs, promised to formally and publicly disavow the statements attributed lo him, that he (Server) accused Lay-ard of encouraging Turkey to light on by promises of English Btipport. In default of such reparation, Layard will demand that the Porte dismiss Server. F.lectiouor a Lite Henator. Versailles, Feb. 19 The Senate this afternoon again balloted for a life Sena tor. M. Joseph De Carayon l.atour, Con servative, was elected by the following vote: M. Do Carayon Latour, 140; M. Victor Le Franc, 135. M, Carayon La-tour was a member of the extreme Right in the National Assembly of lb7I. The British Fleet.. London, Feb, 19. In addition to the vessels now in the Bay of Murdonia, the smaller ships, including the lorch, Ante- lops, rlnmmgo, Risilisk and Cygnet, are ou the Bosphortis, or at the entrance of tlie .black sea, to keep watch over the straits and hold themselves at the dis posal of the Ambassador and Consuls, luHnrrecllou InerenalnK TheTnrkn Defeated. London, Feb, 19. Telegrams from Athens represent that the Thessalian in surrection is increasing. They report that six thousand lurks have been de feated near Volo, with a loss of eix hun dred killed, after desperate lighting. llecliiiullotl Heeeivcd Willi Af. laiiMe. Pesth, Feb. 19. M. FifZa, chief of the Ministry, made a statement to the Utet to-dav identical with that of Prince Auersperg in the Reichsrath. The declaration was received with applause. F-ropoaed Bfeetlujr of Workmen Abandoned. London, Feb. 19. The meeting of workmen of London, on the Eastern ques tion, which was fixed to take place at Islington, Ihursday next, has been aban doned. First Ballot of the Conclave. Rome, Feb. 19. The smoke of burn ing ballot papers was visible this after noon, Bhowmg the Conclave bad voted. but nobody had obtained the necessary majority. Ail Addition to tlio Couelnve. Rome, Feb. 19. Cardinal Cardozo, Patriarch of Lisbon, has 'arrived at the Vatican and will enter the Conclave tonight.An Iron liud for Beiilkn Buy. Ka Valetta. Malta. Feb. 19. Her Majesty's Iron Clad Devastation, started for iicnika Bay to-day. CHILLICOTHE. Commencement of the Bowsher Trial The Conrt Koom Packed-Only Seven Jnrvincn Obtained, ffi Special to thi Ohio State Journal. CfliLLicoTiiE, Ohio, Feb. 19. Perry Bowsher, the alleged murderer of the Mc-Vey family, was brought before Judge Minchel this morning at ten o'clock. The street between the jail and Court House was crowded by people who were anxious to get a glimpse of the prisoner as he was being led from the tail to the court room The idea that he would be taken from the Sheriff' and given a short shift at the end of a rope, was entertained by quite a number present, but be it said to the credit of Ross county, that he was not disturbed in tho least. Bowsher is a small, rather lightly built man, brown hair, and light blue eyes, with a light brown scraggy beard all over his face. Sheriff Mackey sent a barber to his cell this morning to shave him, but (8UCC1KSNOKS TO OKROR1V. KEKSJIAW NEW GOODS DAILY ! he refused lo let the tonsorial artist come near him. When the Sheriff' entered the court room with the prisoner, he experienced considerable difficulty in getting from the door to the bar, the room being so densely packed with people. As Boon as the prisoner was seated, the Clerk called the names of the witnesses for the Htate, and it waB found that but three or four of the fifty or more subpectcl were present, and the court took a recess until two o'clock this afternoon. There have been ninety-two witnesses zubperieJ on both eidcB. Bowsher's counsel, Messrs. Mayo and Gilmnre, are going to try and clear him on the insanity dodge. At first they intended trying to prove an alibi, but they have given that mode of defense tip as impracticable. It IB feared that there will Iib considerable difficulty experienced in getting a jury lo try him. The McVeys were bo well and favorably known throughout the county that their brutal murder excited very great animosity within the breasts of the people of thecounty against the perpetrators of it. The city is lull of country people, and the trial iB going lo be of unusual interest. ISecoml Uispateh.l CutLi.icoTnE, Feb. 19 When the Court convened this afternoon Mr. Mayo, counsel for prisoner, made a motion to have his client discharged from prosecution upon the ground that he was nn un- cured lunatic when the crime was committed. The Court overruled the motion. They proceeded then to impannel a jury. Tlie entire venire waa exhausted and only teven jurymen secured. The court room was parked to sufiucalion during the whole of the afternoon, Cotten and w,f,ien VtorkH Knrned. Chester, Pa,, Feb. 19. Daniel Lee's cotton and woolen works, at Leiperville, two miles from ttiiB city, were burned this afternoon, Lobs $35,000; insurance $5000. Heavy HiinIucub Fnllnre. Montreal. Feb. 19. Des Marteau Lamaroux and Crevier, land speculators, have failed. Liabilities $500,000. The assets consist of leal eslatoon which there is a great shrinkage. BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. Colonel R. G, Ingersoll intends to re move to Washington City. William Schullz was thrown from a sleigh at Ft. Wayne night before last and instantly killed. Jacob WemrjfJf. of Fort Wayne, aged eight years, was strangled to death, night before last, in a lit ol cougntug. Governor Packard has been called from Washington to New Orleans by the death of his child, the second that has died this winter. A man named Andrew Smith, of Ft. Wayne, dropped dead, night before last, from heart diseane, at a cntircn door, which he waB about to enter. Three men were drowned in the river near Wheeling day oeioro yesterday, They were cronung in a boat, when it sank, and as neither could swim they wero lost. Mayor Powers, of Charabersburg, New Jersey, has left home under a mental ex citement m reference to his accounts, which would not balance. Experts have discovered the error, and the accounts are found correct. There is trouble in the Baltimore school Board. At a recent meeting of the City Council a member charged criminal ill timacy on the part of certain members of the board and certain leuiale teachers. No names were given, but all ie to be exposed at a future investigation. A special from Washington to the Cincinnati Gszette sayB : Some of the radi cal Republicans are evidently making preparations lor a break Willi ine administration. One of them slated Monday that nothing could benefit the party more than a row for thirty days. PoBsibly that row is to be precipitated in the speech which Eugene Hale, of Maine, is preparing as an arraignment of the Southern policy of the administration, John Reno, one of the notorious gang of Indiana, who baa been serving a term in tho Missouri Penitentiary on a charge of robbing a county treasury, and now on his way to Indiana to answer a charge against him, states that while he was in the Missouri Penitentiary, a prominent politician promised to have his sentence commuted for $1200, and the same amount in jewelry. When the commu tation was procured, Reno gave an order on the Warden for the amount, but that official had spent the money, and the pa pers were carried away. The politician got the jewelry, nnd wears the watch nt this time, neno nnaity got out Dy paying $250. A Vermont paper says: "Mr. O.N. Colby, of Danville, met with a serious accident last week while in the woods chop- ing. In cutting down a large spruce tree it fell in a contrary direction from what he intended, and' when it came down caught his leg between the butt and a log that lay near, dislocating his ankle joint and breaking tho bones so that they protruded through the Ueeh. In this Condi-tion ho was held fast and no help near. Although his cries were heard a great distance, none recognized them as of a person in distress. Finding that he was not likely to receive aesistance, he took an ax, chonned the end of the logoff, which was about twenty inches through, and thus freed himself, and then crawled on his hands and knees toward home, but had gone but a short distance before he gave up in despair. In this condition he was found by a man happening along going from the main road to the Buchanan place, who took him to his home." Richmond, Va., has a tramp sensation. Night before last, in one of the most aris & CO., A CO.) DIED. Kionoiiis At 11 a. m., February 18, Miss Marv Nicmolbs. Funeral services at the residence of Jas, Park, Mifflin townBhip, ou Wednesday, Februa-iy 20, at 11 a. m. CaiirjHTON On Tuesday morning, February l'J, 1878, at quarter past one o'clock, Jcun Cbkiuuton, in the sixty-first year of. his age. Funeral from family residence, 483 East Hound street, Wednesday, February 20, at 2 p. m. tocratic neighborhoods, where resides a family named B. T. M. Smith, with two blooming daughters aged respectively eighfeen and seventeen, a tramp entered the house after the young ladies had , retired and gone to sleep, and nicely ensconced himself in the bed between thorn. The mother of the girls, before retiring. went to the room and discovered the three fast asleep. She notified her husband, who secured a policeman and arrested the tramp, Then a scene followed, the young ladies fainting. The (ramp stated that he entered the room, and iu the darkness supposed the occupants of the bed were men, and as they were asleep he piled in and was soon asleep himself. The next morning the prisoner was taken before the Police Judge, where the man stated his name was Kelly, and that he came from Hanging Rock, Ohio. The Judge gavo him six months in jail in order to make him more particular in future as to whose apartments he retired in. A Washington special dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial of yesterday saya: Secretary Thompson on Saturday last met, by invitation, the Mouse committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department. These gentlemen were closeted for several hours in the Secretary's office, going over the alleged irregularities that have transpired in the Navy Department during the eight or nine years prior to the commence ment of Mr. Thompson's official term as Secretary of the Navy. The inquiry also embraced several acts ol the heads of Bureaus, Paymasters and other subordinate naval officers that occurred eince Mr. Thompson took office, which the Secretary had himself discovered, and to which he had direcled the attention of the committee. It appears that notwithstanding the very strict scrutiny practiced by the Secretary over the purchases made by pay directors, pay inspectors, paymasters and chiefs of the various Bureaus of the Navy Department, some of the officers have from time to time deviated from the ruleslaid down by the Secretary, and have also violated the plain letter of the law in order to subserve the interests of contractors and favorite blotters and dealers in naval supplies. Ohio. The President has appointed William R. Kurtz Postmaster at Athens. A boy named Worlhington had his arm broken while wrestling, at McArthur, on the 18th. John Brady, a brakeman, had both feet crushed by the cars at Norfolk, on the 18th inst. The Holmes County Republican, which was burned out recently, will be issued again Boon. A boy named Slam was eeriouBly wounded at Mianiisburg, on the 18th, while fooling with a pistol, Creighton's lumber yard, at Cincinnati, was burned on the night of the 18th, Loss about $4000; covered by insurance, A large pork packing and slaughtering house at Riply, was destroyed by fire on the 18th inst. Loss about $8000; mostly insured. The trial of Charles McGill, for tho murder of Mary Kelly, commenced at Cleveland yesterday, the 19th inst. His mother and three brothers arc present. General A. V, Rice, Congressman from this State, was presented with a hand-Bome gold-headed cane the other day, by two members ol tne uaiuornia delegation. Foreign. Cardinal McCloskey arrived at Qaeens-town yesterday morning. Prince BiBmarck did not participate in the ministerial llatnbeau danjj, as he was announced to do. The amount of bullion withdrawn from the Bank of England yesterday on balance, was 50,000. Ibe Itnunnza Mine Owner on Silver The financial editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, an anli silver newspaper, thinks that the supposition that the bonanza mine owners are very anxious for the passage of the Bland bill is erroneous, saying : "Most of them are producers of gold as well as silver, and in nearly equal quantities. They can easily see that in tlie event of the remonetization of the silver dollar their business will at once full to a silver basis. If the coinage be free, they will reap a temporary benefit. If the coinage be left to the Government tbey will be losers by tho operation. We will Buppose that the Government takes charge of the coinage. The Secretary of the Treasury goes into the market for fifty thousand ounces fine silver, which is coined into silver dollars. The next time he goes into the market he can use the silver dollars thus coined to pay for the second installment of fine silver, and this thing can bo repeated indefinitely. The result is a silver standard and a general derangement in commercial values, which will ever after be subject to the most violent 1 lln-tiiiinns. It' rennires only average common sense to forecast this condition of things." A Western paper noticed tho opening of a new whisky store, and the next day apologized for the brevity of its columns, because,"the reporter was ill." He as. e'atcd at the opening.

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Hammond, lale surgeou ...i ne iIib Armv Dill DaSBi'd : lo re instate the names of Pensioners of the war a( 1812 lint introauccu: immii,B i'- m.,ii..n .riu.it. to certain heirs and partiei for a part of the Fort Dearborn reservation ... im,S.. n In, bill remilatino- the corn- ,Biitinn of nostmaslers was diacuued at tome length, but without definite action. If.,,... 'PliM i-nntei-ted eltetiou C8S3 A,.i,ii v Dam-ll. from the Fourth Louis. liKtrirt. wkb taken un, and Louisiana allairs were iliwuMed duiiiig the Miiamder ol' the itav, anil wtihnut arriving hi nuj eonc'.usi in on the case in iiie9tion. Ueiiernl ANwe.nbly. id Smtile Kills iutr.idiited : Re ..aiii, iimrroittration clause of the Iti traliuii act; iuuvidinf lor the annual exam miiinn of lile idiiirauce eomnaniea, and re- siiiciiiifr invest nisnts to United States liotii UI,,l nmrtirMfn.H mum real estate. . oMW-Tue lit.use met at half part two o'clock, and tu-inK without a quorum, busineps waE transacted. indication for Temmsee und the Ohio Valley, and Lower Lake region Fulling birmmter, increasing eouthmd to mutheasl wind, chmh weather and rain, partly turn ivj to mow in the last section, and fdlowed in the western portion by rising barometer and colder northuesterly wmds. (.Sold cloned in New York ycaterduj at 1013 NEWARK. Com-luslim of ilia Coullor Hilnlor T.lul-I'lio Vnllt, "NoiUulIiy Special to the Ohio btato Journal. Nkwakk, Fell. 10. The nreuineiit in Hid cane of Coulter cloned before noon am theciai n given to the jury, who have iuat now at halfimi-t keven returned one of t!in moat righ-teoita verdicts ever rendered. The Court room has been nicked to sufl'ocal ion all day. and when ii. -o.,i;i "Not, Ouiltv." was nounced, it was inipoBible to control the enlliiisiaam of the great crowct, auu snouu f "fj ' n. "Thank Ood." feemed to is mm frnni everv month. This was the moat exciting case tried here for fifteen years.) Klriekt.u will. iirlilyalH. 8iclnl to ihe Ohio Stale Journal. Mt. Vebnon, Feb, 19 Mr. Anthony . Banning, an old and highly respectable citizen of this place, was stricken with paralyaia this morning. The entire left side is helpless, and his condition is considered extremely critical. Mr. A. A. Thayer, who is lying very low with consumption, was similarly afflicted on yesterday. t'knrfroii IHaiiiltiHeil. Chicago, Feb. 19 Htale Attorney Milla to-day bad the charges of conspiracy made against Major Woods, State Insurance Examiner, in connection with the officers of the defunct Protection Life Insurance company, dismissed, he having satiilied himself by a rigid examination that the charges were without the slightest foundation. This action is regarded as an honorable acquittal of the Htate Examiner of any criminality in the matter. I.onlNlniiH 'Airulm. New Orleans. Feb. 19. There is no decision yet in Ihe case of Anderson's apnea! for a new trial. The House has unseated Louis J. Souer, KepublicaD, and by a vole of iiftynine to liftvfour. seated Judge Barber, Democrat, aa a member for Avoyelles parish, on the ground that Souer had never beed a resident of the parish. Robert L. Case, the convicted New York Life Insurance l'resiilent, has been released on $25,000 bail, pending the hearing of a motion for a new trial. SIEBEHT BY TELEGRAPH TO TEX OHIO STATS JO USUAL WASHINGTON. 'he.Acklin-DarreU Contested Election Case. The Tixt of a Discussion on Lou isiana Affairs and the Southern Policy. Hale's Speech on the President's Conciliatory Efforts. Gat field's Tiew and Review of the Situation. The President's Faith and Hope Larger than the Faith and Hope of Most People." A Sharp Passage as to tlio Punish ment of Rebels. Situation iu ilio House Nilver BUI. tlie Stephens and Bland Indicate Acquies cence In the Senate Amendments. IXPORT TRADE CONVEHTION Washington, Feb. 19. The National Convention of the United States Export Trade assembled to-day. John D. Hayes, Uhicago, was appointed lempo- rarv Chairman, and John Varmolo Sec- retarv. There was a large attendance of delegates, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, merchants' exchanges, city councils and various manufacturing asso- ations being represented from all sec tions of the Unmi. BANK NOTE EXCIIANflF. The House committee on Banking and Currency to-day authorized their Chair man, Mr. liucltner, to report Ins bin which propones to substitute for national Bank notes a new description of Treasury notes, which shall be receivable in pay ment of customs dues and all claims or demands against the United States, ex cept obligations made payable in com by existing laws, and shall tie receivable at nar for four per cent. bond. lhey previously heanl the Comptroller oi tne Currency on an argument against the but. He contended its enactment would be nu infringement of the vested rights and that the Government has no Consti tutional power to take this action in re gard toJNalional Daubs whilo their cnar- tera continue in existence. TIIE RliTUNING 110AIID TIUAI.S Representative Ellis states that in nrotrncttd interview with President Hayes, last night, no received assurance that the Administration had never con teniplaled interference by the United Slates Courts r r otherwise with the action of the courts or State government of Louisiana, and that while Ihe President regretted the prosecution of Anderson and Wells, it would not alter bis course to ward the Stale or the neonle of Louis lairn. It was a matter which involved their honor, and be trusted their honor. Mr. Ellis also stated he fully informer the President of the condition of allairs in Louisiana and correcteii what ho (Ellis) considered errors and misstatements of Secretary Sherman and nthen in tegard to the Ueturning Hoard trials. NATIONAL AGHICUI.TURAI. COKURI.S9. The National Agricultural Cnngrera met this afternoon. About one hundred deli vales were iiresnt. Owing to the ill ness of President Flags:, Vice President Jones called the Convention to order and read the address of Ihe President. HF8UMPTION MITRAL. The Senate committee of Finance will lake tin the House bill fur the repeal o the specie resumption act Tuesday next, XI.VIIl oiiifrtm-First Nesslou SENATE. Mi. Snencer. from the committee on Mil- ilnrv AtlUirs. renortcd favorably on the bill lor the relief of Wm. A. Hammond, late Surgeon General of the Army, and it was placed on the calnndar. It authorizes the President to review the proceedings of the general court martial in bis case, and to annul una s t aside tne unatngs anu sentence of said court martial. If. after such re view, ho shall deem it right auduronerto do eo; nud in the event of the lindings being set aside, the President is authorized to place the naino of W m. A . Hammond on the retired list 01 me army as ourgeou un-eral: provided, in case of such restoration lie shall not bo allowed hack pay or allow anees of anv kind whatever. Mr. Ferry called up the Senate bill to reg-nlai.ft ilia eomnenstion ot uoiituiasters auc for other purposes, which was diacus.ed at some length. Messrs. Kdmunds, Hamlin, Davis of n est Virginia, and others, expressed themselves in lavor of restoring- the franking privilege. Mr. Udmunds, during his remarks, said the denial of the privilege to members ol (tnniress rather imnlied the members were enguged in other things than public business or else soiu inctr lrunas, unu no uenieu uolu nrtliusft imnutationa. Further consideration of the bill was then postponed until to-morrow. Mr. Matthews, bv reauesl. introduced hill inakine a nre-emntiou grant to heirs of Jena Baptisle Beuhiem, deceasod, for a part of the B'ort Dearborn reservation ut Chicago and to confirm the nurchasersof other parts in their titles and to convey to Chicago the streets and alleys ot Baia reservation, in ferred. At. the exniration of the morning hour, Mr. Wilheracalled up for consideration the Senate bill amending the laws granting pensions to soldif ra and sailors ot the war 1812 and their widows. The committee reported nn amendment to the ecctien authorizing the restoration to the nention rollB ot all personB now surviv ing heretofore pensioned on account of scr-viraa in the war of 1812. or any of the In dian wars, whose names wero Btricken herefrom on account of disloyalty, so as nr.-iv MathAtall Buch Doraons should be re- stored whoso diajtbilitiea had been removed, or who hud made application lor sucn ro Mr. Infills said there wero not more than 0110 hundred men directed by this provision ol" the bill, ti9 nearly all distinctions between leyai people ana reDeis una ueen uumenutu, ml f.u thprft wnB mi noasibilitv nf a rostoru- tion of national unity without having such obliteration complete, the bill buouiu . bo passed. Alter some further discussion, it agreed that the words of Ihe amendment were not necessary to restore to the pension rolls the names of those persons Btricken therefrom on account of disloyalty, and Air. W ithers, in charge ot the bill, witbdruw it. The other amendmenta of the committee nf a verbal character, wore airreed to. The question being on the third readinjf of tne Din, tne mil wa8 tnen reau tue mira unit.' and passed yeaB 47, najB 8. houik. Immediately after the reading of the journal, Mr. Harris, Chairman of tho Elec tion committee, called up the election case : of Acklin v. Darrellyfrom the fourth Lou isiana district, the majority report being in favor ot Acklin, the contestant, and the i minority being in favor of Darrel, the sitting ' member : I Mr, Hale tried to obtain the iloor to reply 1 a speech made a few days ago by Mr. j Gibson, but withdrew his request with the understanding that he should be allowed the oor uunng me ueoate on iuo oieuuuu caao. Mr. Stephens To-morrow, or as soon as in pr aft is disnnaed of. I shall move to pro ceed to the business on the Speaker's table, with a view ot taking up the Hou3e bill, hich has come back trom the benato witp amendments. I state further, my object shall be to move to concur in those amend ments. Applause on the Republican side. J Mr: Butler of Massachusetts Every sup porter of the bill will vote againBt that. JUT. Ill till U CiJJlMIUCU U1L 11D unu mivum to make the same motion as the gentleman from Georgia intimated he would make. Mr.uucunersaiu ne naainienueuiuia murii-ii to move to refer the bill to the commit tee on Banking and Currency, but he was not particular how the bill would bo brought up. Mr. Harris, iu opening his speech on the electioo, said he was not sorry the Silver bill would not come up to-day, as its friends seem to have no concert of action and the success of the bill would be promoted by postponement. At the end of Mr. Harris's speech, Mr. Hale obtained the floor and referred to the remarks made Thursday by Air. Gibson, that he f Hale) had taken occasion in season and out of soasou to denounce the people of Louisi ana. Ho denied ho had ever aenounceu those ueoole. On the contrary, he had taken occasion heretofore on the floor of the Houao speak p.ainly upon the gno nances hich had existed in that State and which he had earnestly regretted. Ho had been profoundly moved with uib ob servation of the course of events in Louis iana for the past year, and especially tor the Dast six months. In the beginning he had watched the experiment made there hopefully, believing that tho magnanimous and conciliatory course pursued by the President toward that people would be met by a ffenerouB and neartv return, tint nehau seen that tho honor and plighted support and pledged return tor generosity had ueen lor-feited; that the resolutions of the State Legislatures went for nothing, and political nmsecutions wero urned to-day iu Louis- Una with the same spirit which reminded im of tho earlier days. Ho reviewed the course of t vents in Louisiana from the close of Grant's Administration, bringing forward nrnniiuent v tho tact that the title ot the 1'ackara government anu uie racsaru Lprrislature had been settled bv the Elector al Commission, it boing based upon the count of the Returning Hoard, the same Hoard whise action in tho capo ot the I'reBi- dent had been confirmed by the Electoral Commission, whose decision bad been ac cepted by both houses of Congress. Its title had also since been affirmed by the Henate in the admission to a eeac iu mat uouy oi Kelloirs. elected to the Hcnnto by the rack' ard Legislature. He spoke of a call of that .legislature on the i-eueral Government lor rOiet'llOU UK tun 3 b uuintauu iuicuu. tic d not know and nobody could what were the rtllrctions that passed through the mind of the President on that subject, but he could gee the President, looking on the subject th a desira tor pence, with a disposition for conciliation, with a tendency toward teudernc8. determined to start out and com mit his admiuititratiou to ft course not of repression or strong iron hand upon that people, but cf concession, of mugna-nimit.v. and to diaret'M'd tho c-tll of the Leg islature of Louiamni.. Ho went on to speak of the sendinir of a Commission to Louisi ana by tho President, the result ot whose visit win the disintegration of the Packard urm-prnnient and the installation of the Mictions government, anu ue ueciareu mat no experiment iu tnai uirecuon una ever baen made so thoroughly as the President had made this one. The Legislature and Governor Nicholls had promised a pardon for all political otlenses. He asked the House to ui r n back its mind and ho asked President Haves to turn back his mind six months, to the 1st of May, 1877. Would anybody have been found to predict then that in ega than sixty ciavs tuo men wno, foremost of al l,bud made themselves otl'ensive o the Louisiana Democracy, because they had carried out the law of the btate and had thereby become political offenders against that party in Louisiana, and throughout the country, would nave oeen prosecutea ; Would tne rresiueui nave uneveu u i Would anvone have believed it? Mr. Hale went on to amue that there was no legal ground for the prosecution of the Anderson Kelurning Hoard, who had been for twenty years elected to the Legislature from ins own pariah, wno nad always stoou high in public and private estimation, and who had never been before considered an outcast und a malefactor. In confirmation of his statement that there was a compact that there should be no political prosecutions in Louisiana, be quoted from the letter ot ii. V Kmnllev. in the Now York 'Jnbnne. Mr. a'e then went on to say that there was a profound impression that the proceed- incr iu Louisiana had its root, its main sor ucr. KB source eisewnere mat mere were many wno rjoueveu mat me wuuio pur-forniunce had been dictated and driven for ward by restless man who did not mean ever tn mlmit that the Presidential title had been settled. The President of the United States u Uarmntr to-dav a lesson ot misulaced con fidence. H was the old, old story. There had been nothing which the President could do to make efficacious his course toward the Hnulh. which he hid not done. There had lirin nn encaiiMiroment which could be held out to that section showing the President's crond faith, which the President had nnt nwtrtpri to. lie had amiointed Cabinet ministers, foreign ministers and other high officials from lhat section, because he had been anxious that it the experiment lniiea, nnhnilvfthnuldbu ab e to buy that it had tail ed trom any lacit ou lib piiri,iiiiu uuv m. Ilin rut urn rPfniVPi1 I TO IB 1.0 i S ana C in rmwbiHlon. he intimated that it might be tho constitutional duty of the President to see that no miustice was done to a cui.en of the United BtattB. Mr. Gibson replied to Mr. Hale, lie de nied that there had been any such compact f.ir immunity for crime as had been asserted by Mr. Hale. He portrayed the Btuto of af fairs ia LioniHinna uunng iacu years, when no guilty man bad been pun- i-hprf and w hen no honest man had felt his lifo secure from lawlessness, but since the Nicholls Government bad been inaugurated, no man, whether poor or rich who committed a crime had escaped pun-iahmfmr.. Ho denied that tho Keturninc Board was being persecuted on political grounds. Who had anythiug to gain by .hut? Certain v not the people ot Louisi ana. Certainly not the National Democratic imrtv. for Hayes's title had been passed ..nnn hv (Innorftss. The Upturning Board was being prosecuted for forgery. That tho crime of forgery was trivial, in eo far as the recent election was concerueu, uui it, wno crimfi nf enormous proportions, and man who falsified the returns 60r.i,.li- fi How at civil liberty and free (rovern'ment. If the movement in Lou- iuicmn which finnearcd to bo a very simpli ono, was to excite the public mind, to excite animosities, which be had hoped weresieer-i.irrin Ninrtiifi-n cnmmuni t ic9. ho should de- n,.va it mo tlmnanv other man. Revert- tn t ha .h nrwpq nf a couina-jt butweun the Ai.thnriiiPH nf Louisiana aud the Federal Government, he denied it not only tor thi Nicholls Government, not only for hi friends, but for the President and his Cabi net. They could not b-3 guilty ol sucn crime. Mr. Garfield noxt obtained the floor and said that the Rentlcman from Pennsylvania (Clymer) called upon the people of Louisi ana to nc n ma uemocniLiu iimiy u " tho preat crime of the Presidential count, Thin Im frtiirltohn tfhnriicteri.ed as the enter ing point of the wedge which was to drive homo to what whs called the "great crime of tho century." Ho did not intend to make an inllammatory speech. If there was people on earth iliat had a right to ba wosry at heart of politics and partisanship, it was the American people. He pictured three stnges which a country must undergo in transition from a state of war to a state of peace. First, there wrb the military Btage, when bloody battles ths soldiers met U decide by the power of Btrength the ques tions involved, next came ine stage mat was semi-civil and semi-military. It was at is Btage that General Grant bad taken the reins of the Government, and he had endeavored to keep hiB administration within the provinces of civil and military power. when he naa been succeeded by r resident Hayes, that gentleman had thought it was possible to declare that the semi-military period had gone and that the period had come when ody peace methods should inaugurated. In his iudtrment. President Haves was an ontionist. who looked only on the bright side of human nature and disliked to look at its dark side. His (resident Hayes's) faith and hope had been larger than the faith and hone of most people. He had gone forward to the verge of the Constitution in ottering both hands in fellowship and in offering the olive branch of peace. He had gone to the limits of his power in order to bring about an era of good reeling and paciti cation, no man nad suarea more heartily the aspirations of the President than he (Garfield) bad. He had tried in every way to aid tho President in his project, and in order to do that there was a world of things to be forgotten and forgiven on both sides. If the spirit and letter of the law had been adhered to at the end of the rebellion there would have been no end to the spectacles of prosecution and punishment under the law signed by George Washington against those who had committed crime and treason. Mr. Gibson asked if Mr Garfield held to the theory that every man in the Confederate sercice had been guilty of traason? Cries of ''Ye?," from the Republican side. Mr. Wirheld replied tnat he was unwilling eo back to that qut-Btion. He would only answer by asking the gentleman to look at the naked statute passed by the First Congress; and signed by George Washington, and then let him, us a lawyer, answer his own question. He went on to say that the President carried out his purpose further than any other American citizen had ever carried a great purpose to accomplish a result.Mr. House Has he had tho support of the ReouUieati nartv in the North in his efforts at conciliation and n storing peace to the country f I Mr. uariieia no nas naa tueir support' just in so far us they had reason to believe that a reciprocity ot reeling would lonow isellorts lAppiuuso on the uepuoncan side. There is, however, a different de- greeut laitn among my brtthren uere as to how far that reciprocity would go. Mr. House asked it the entuo ltepuoucan party, with here andtheie an exception, had not opened a war upon the President for his attempt to conciliate the country, and charged hiui with deserting his party ? Applause on the democratic side and cries ut ino, r, on tho Republican side.J Mr. Garheld replied that there had always been men here aud there who distrusted the result of that policy, and h whs moved to see that liiimbcr had been increasing week by week, and recently hour by hour. Ap- iau8?.J Mr. Waddell asked if the troops h-id not been removed from the Sonih as a matter of constitutional duty, and did not, the Repub- ican party make war on 1 tie President lor thatf Mr. Garfield replied that the withdrawal of the troops from tho Governor's room and office in New Orleans was a constitutional uty. As a political Etudent, ho (Garheld) had ntvor doubted, and did not doubt to- that Packard had br-en honestly and fairly elected Governor of Louisiana. Ap- anse on tlio uepuiitican eide.j neierriug to the Commission, which had been sent down bv Prcsideut Have?, he had declared hat it that uommission had undertaken to ;t the members ot one Legislature lutoau- her. that was nn improper bxecutive in terference with local self government. Mr. C ha mors naked it Mr. Uarheld bad otsiid some d ivsoiro that at the Wormley conference, it had been agreed that the troops houlu be withdrawn f Mr. Garfield replied that the gentleman was mistaken. He had never heard of such an acrcement. He did not mean to say that it was wrong tor the f resident to send Commission to Louisiana in order to ob tain information, but he meant that that Commission had no right to interfere in the fot uiation of a SUte Legislature. Mr. Gibson sUled that he believed mat the Commission had had no such instructions, or no purpose to accomplish such an end. Mr. Garfield That is tho gentleman's opinion. Let us hope it is true, ite went on to say that, the nciion nf the President in removing the troops iml teen looaeu upon bv tho oe-O'de of Louisiana as a generous and magnanimous action, and they had gar- anded meu who pertormed it wmi tne ri lies pram?. In that era ot reconciliation, ooiu sides had fortrotteu and f'urciven much. There hod been bleeding hearts in the land at the recitals i f the massacres at Hamburg and Klleuton, but those horrible stories were never heard of now. Why ? Because there had been a tilent determination to let all that trouble chapter sleep. All the out-rages which had been 'committed in Louisiana during the late election hfld been covered with the veil of oblivion. Who had begun tills latter revival ot the chapter f While tint work of conciliation had been going forward, there had commenced at th j North (he uHirmed it boldly) tho process of laying tho keel Cor another Presidential campaign, and the order had gone forth to Louisiana to open upon the members ot tho ueturning hoard, 10 ais-guise it under the form of a State proceed ing, but to enter her wedge, and men iue Democratic party would summon all its Btreneth to drive tht wedge to its head and stamp the great fraud of tho, election aj it deserves. After Mr. Garfield coucluded tho House adjourned. CRIME AND CASUALTY. .Harder and MMclde. St. Louis, Feb, 19. John Guuibinger, accompanied by a lady, regiatereil at Hie Lintlell laft night. Thej ate supper and wero ppsiuiud to a room. About five o'clock tliis afternoon the room waB enter. ed and Ihe bodies of the man and the wo man were found lying on the bed. The woman had been shot in the left temple and the man in the riiiht. 'J he pistol, which had done the work, wan in the man's hand. The man waa ulcnlitied as John uumnin eer. aired twentVBeven. a oariteeper ior Harry Lyda, a wealthy eaioon-Keeper and brewer. The woman wan Maggie Lvda. aced ninotccn, daughter of Hum- binder's employer. Her father had forbidden marriage between them. The young woman waa pregnant. Row Aiiiuuk SttidnntH. New York, Feb. 19 An Evening Post fp;cinl ay : A serious affray occurred last ntcht in the Trenton, New Jersey, Colleere between two SonhomoreB and eight Freshmen, in which one ot tne Sophomores was dangerously "hot. The Sophomores' room was entered by the I'reshmen, who Uouna tho Hopnomoiea 10 chain, shaved their heads and left them tied. Other HophomoreB followed the freshrneft; shots were exchanged ana ai-terburg, of the SophomoreB, was wounded in the thigh. Ureat excitement prevails. One of the Hrnn aii on lilt Wiiy Home. St. Lours, Feb. 19. John Esno, the express robber, left hero to-day, in charge of detectives, for Brownstown, Indiana, where he in to be tried lor roDDing me Adams Express car on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad of $18,000 on the 16th of October, 180B. He was released from the Missouri penitentiary yesterday, on a writ of habeas corpus, having served ten years for" the robbing of the Daviess county treasury. The prisoner is one of the famous Keno gang, half a dozen of the members of which were hung near Seymour, Indiana, FOREIGN. Austria and Germany on the Eastern Situation. Great Distress Among tlio Soldiers at Erzoroum, One Ballot for Pops Election. Without an Seventy Millions of People Starving iu China. Gigantic Calamity with Which the Imagination Falls to Cope Aueirlit nnd Iho Eastern Trouble. Vienna, Feb. 19. Prince Auereperg, President of the Austrian Council of Ministers, in reply to an interpellation in the Home of Keichsrath to-day, Raid the Government, on being informed of the preliminaries of peace, frankly stated its position regarding them, declaring it could not consider as binding any arrangement between the belligerent affecting the interests of this monarchy or the rights of the signatories of the treaty of Paris as long as such arrangements were not agreed to by the Powers. At the same time the Government looks upon the initiative in the convocation of the Conference from a standpoint regarding a peace basis, and its proposal for the assembling of the Conference is accepted by all Cabinets. Kussia has declared in favor of a Congress, not a Conference, and that it should not meet in the Capital of any signatory State. Negotiations on this subject are approaching a conclusion. We expect an early meeting of the Congress consequently the Government is not in position to make a detailed statement of its views. It ia bound, however, to declare generally that it cannot regard the peace stipulations as consonant with the interests of the monarchy. This reservation does not apply to the amelioration of the condition ot the Christians, hut to such provisions aH might involve an alteration of the balance of power in the Kaat to the detriment of Austria. The Government confidently hopes the European Council will reach an understanding and a solution satisfactory to all. In any case, the Government in the present grave circumstances will consider it itaduty and mitsion to secure due recognition of the political and material interests and dignity of the monarchy, UlNmitrcU and flift Alilnde or Uot. Kiauy, Berlin, Feb. 19. In the Reichstag today, in response to an interpellation of Bennejizen, Bismarck stated he had little practically now to tell. He then discussed the separato provisions of the pro-liuiinarieaof pence and showed Germany's interests are not affected in such a manner as to oblige her to deviate from her previous attitude He described the apprehensions respecting the Dardanelles as not justified by the nctual situation. Regarding the position lo be taken by Germany he said he could not now give any oflioial information as the documents only came into his possession to-day. He did not believe in a European war as the Powers who supported Russia would have to assume tho resnonsibilily of the legacy lefi by Turkey. Germany was in favor of hasleiiinyr the assembling of the confer ence, which perhaps will meet within the first forlniL'ht of March, lie reiected em phatically all suggestions that Germany should intervene and declared sne was willing perfectly to mediate, but did not wish to exercise the cilice of the arbiter of Europe. Prince liisinarck also stated that Rus sian cthcial cuuiuitinication maue ii. cer tain that the chief interest of Gjrmany, namely the fieedum of the water, such as the straits and the Danube, for com-meice, would be maintained. He believed it was to Russia's interest to come to an understanding, and not have a fear of complications with Austria or En- land constantly impending. Ihe Blip- position that might forcibly compel other Powers lo accept a settlement to which they objected, seemed entirely out of the question. He denied that the Russians nad pusneu iorwara meir irrops uuuur the cloak of negotiations. Advance In Amarlrnu Ntncug. London. Feb. 19 Tne Times says United States bonds have surprised many neonle hv advancing instead of falling on the news that the Silver bill passed in a manner that will insure its becoming a taw in much .its present shape. We have always said the public was not selling the stock to any appreciable extent, and the weakness which has now and then char acterized the bonds -was due as much as anything to the passing fears of dealers and to speculative-selling, which only made the market harder. Hence on receipt of better New York prices and because the worst was now known, tho mar ket naturally rose by the mere eliortfl ol those who had sold to buy back, iiesides it has been noticed that the limitation put upon the amount of silver that may be coined within a given time, is itself tan tamount to making silver a subsidiary coinage, at all events tor some consider able time, so that there is little alarm felt and holders stick to their bonds. The only thing that will lower the prices of those tor any other high class oi biockb just now is dearer money. Seventy JHHIIoiin nf 'liinese stnrv UK- London. Feb. 19. It ia slated on au thority which ean not be questioned, that seventy millions ot human neingB are, now starving in the famine Btricken provinces of North China. Imagination fails to cone with so gigantic a calamity The Times says : we cannot notini mai if the Chinese have found their way to America from the comparatively prosper ous Eastern provinces by thousands, they will pour forth in myriads trom the tam- me stricken districts of the .norm as soon as a way is opened to them. The Chinese difficulty may speedily become a greater menace to the future of the united (states than the negro difficulty waB at its worst. Negro immigration was never voluntary and ceased with the abolition of the slave trade, whilo the Chinese tide begins to flow in force. It iB difficult to Bee where and when it will stop. Tcrrllile Sliirorlus; lu anil Anon Erzeruuni. Constantinople, Feb. 19. A dispatch from Emrouin, the 10th iuat., says : The Russian troops aro Buffering from an epi demic disease and are short of provisions. Negotiations for the surrender of Kize rouin are still proceeding, and are expect ed to conclude to-morrow. Meanwhile the Russian investment continues. Three thousand families are now in Erzeroum in terrible distress, A famine ia believed to be inevitable in the spring. The weather is still intensely cold. Irian. Boronifu Franehlae Kfjeriod London, Feb. 19. In the House of Commons to-night the motion offrred by Weldon, Home Kule member for Kit dare county, in favor of equalizing the OSBORN DRY GOODS and CARPETS! OPEN AT THE.OXiD STAND, 128 SOUTH HIGrH STREET. RECEIVING Irish borough franchise with that of En gland and Scotland, waa opposed by the Government and rejected 134 against 126. The announcement of the close vote was greeted with loud opposition cheerB, Bright and the Liberals supported the motion. A ttoUlalon Between Ncrvla and KuHNla l'jrolmltle. London, Feb, 19. A telegram from Senilin reports that M. Ristics, the Servian Prime Minister, has drawn up a memorandum to the Czir, claiming the whole of Old Bervia. The Servians are resolved not to evacuate the conquered territory unless forcibly expelled. It is stated that Russia has decided to add the pashalic of Nish to Bulgaria, A collision between Servia aud RuBsia is therefore probable. The lluufereiice anil tlie RritUll Fleet. St. Petersihiro, Feb. 19. The Agence Husse states that it is probable that the meeting of the Powere will merely take the form of a Conference. The Turks are be coming more recalcitrant in regard lo peace negotiations. I he Agence Bays the Russians must npproach nearer to Constantinople, if the British fleet remains in the Sea of Marmora. The withdrawal of the Ueet to Basika Bay would, however, solve the difficulty. Prolmhle flume of the Cuban Iasnr-reetlon.Havana, Feb. 19 The Official Ga zette publishes the basis of the peace conditions. They are the same as those telegraphed hence on tlie 14th inst, All the insurgent chiefs have given in their adhesion to the conditions. General satisfaction is expressed ail over the island and peace is no longer doubted. Captain General Jovellar has returned from the interior. The Ti.lllerle to be Kazcd-l'ro. IiohimI Abilieallou. Paris, Feb. 19 The Council General of the Seine lias adopted a resolution recommending the Government to rszo the ruins of the Tuilleriea. A rumor comes from the Hague that the King of Holland thinks of abdicating in favor of tiie Priuce of Orange, his eldest sun, MlnlNter l.ayard and Nerver PaNUa. Constantinople, Feb. 19. It is understood that Server Pasha, Minister ol roreigu A flairs, promised to formally and publicly disavow the statements attributed lo him, that he (Server) accused Lay-ard of encouraging Turkey to light on by promises of English Btipport. In default of such reparation, Layard will demand that the Porte dismiss Server. F.lectiouor a Lite Henator. Versailles, Feb. 19 The Senate this afternoon again balloted for a life Sena tor. M. Joseph De Carayon l.atour, Con servative, was elected by the following vote: M. Do Carayon Latour, 140; M. Victor Le Franc, 135. M, Carayon La-tour was a member of the extreme Right in the National Assembly of lb7I. The British Fleet.. London, Feb, 19. In addition to the vessels now in the Bay of Murdonia, the smaller ships, including the lorch, Ante- lops, rlnmmgo, Risilisk and Cygnet, are ou the Bosphortis, or at the entrance of tlie .black sea, to keep watch over the straits and hold themselves at the dis posal of the Ambassador and Consuls, luHnrrecllou InerenalnK TheTnrkn Defeated. London, Feb, 19. Telegrams from Athens represent that the Thessalian in surrection is increasing. They report that six thousand lurks have been de feated near Volo, with a loss of eix hun dred killed, after desperate lighting. llecliiiullotl Heeeivcd Willi Af. laiiMe. Pesth, Feb. 19. M. FifZa, chief of the Ministry, made a statement to the Utet to-dav identical with that of Prince Auersperg in the Reichsrath. The declaration was received with applause. F-ropoaed Bfeetlujr of Workmen Abandoned. London, Feb. 19. The meeting of workmen of London, on the Eastern ques tion, which was fixed to take place at Islington, Ihursday next, has been aban doned. First Ballot of the Conclave. Rome, Feb. 19. The smoke of burn ing ballot papers was visible this after noon, Bhowmg the Conclave bad voted. but nobody had obtained the necessary majority. Ail Addition to tlio Couelnve. Rome, Feb. 19. Cardinal Cardozo, Patriarch of Lisbon, has 'arrived at the Vatican and will enter the Conclave tonight.An Iron liud for Beiilkn Buy. Ka Valetta. Malta. Feb. 19. Her Majesty's Iron Clad Devastation, started for iicnika Bay to-day. CHILLICOTHE. Commencement of the Bowsher Trial The Conrt Koom Packed-Only Seven Jnrvincn Obtained, ffi Special to thi Ohio State Journal. CfliLLicoTiiE, Ohio, Feb. 19. Perry Bowsher, the alleged murderer of the Mc-Vey family, was brought before Judge Minchel this morning at ten o'clock. The street between the jail and Court House was crowded by people who were anxious to get a glimpse of the prisoner as he was being led from the tail to the court room The idea that he would be taken from the Sheriff' and given a short shift at the end of a rope, was entertained by quite a number present, but be it said to the credit of Ross county, that he was not disturbed in tho least. Bowsher is a small, rather lightly built man, brown hair, and light blue eyes, with a light brown scraggy beard all over his face. Sheriff Mackey sent a barber to his cell this morning to shave him, but (8UCC1KSNOKS TO OKROR1V. KEKSJIAW NEW GOODS DAILY ! he refused lo let the tonsorial artist come near him. When the Sheriff' entered the court room with the prisoner, he experienced considerable difficulty in getting from the door to the bar, the room being so densely packed with people. As Boon as the prisoner was seated, the Clerk called the names of the witnesses for the Htate, and it waB found that but three or four of the fifty or more subpectcl were present, and the court took a recess until two o'clock this afternoon. There have been ninety-two witnesses zubperieJ on both eidcB. Bowsher's counsel, Messrs. Mayo and Gilmnre, are going to try and clear him on the insanity dodge. At first they intended trying to prove an alibi, but they have given that mode of defense tip as impracticable. It IB feared that there will Iib considerable difficulty experienced in getting a jury lo try him. The McVeys were bo well and favorably known throughout the county that their brutal murder excited very great animosity within the breasts of the people of thecounty against the perpetrators of it. The city is lull of country people, and the trial iB going lo be of unusual interest. ISecoml Uispateh.l CutLi.icoTnE, Feb. 19 When the Court convened this afternoon Mr. Mayo, counsel for prisoner, made a motion to have his client discharged from prosecution upon the ground that he was nn un- cured lunatic when the crime was committed. The Court overruled the motion. They proceeded then to impannel a jury. Tlie entire venire waa exhausted and only teven jurymen secured. The court room was parked to sufiucalion during the whole of the afternoon, Cotten and w,f,ien VtorkH Knrned. Chester, Pa,, Feb. 19. Daniel Lee's cotton and woolen works, at Leiperville, two miles from ttiiB city, were burned this afternoon, Lobs $35,000; insurance $5000. Heavy HiinIucub Fnllnre. Montreal. Feb. 19. Des Marteau Lamaroux and Crevier, land speculators, have failed. Liabilities $500,000. The assets consist of leal eslatoon which there is a great shrinkage. BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. Colonel R. G, Ingersoll intends to re move to Washington City. William Schullz was thrown from a sleigh at Ft. Wayne night before last and instantly killed. Jacob WemrjfJf. of Fort Wayne, aged eight years, was strangled to death, night before last, in a lit ol cougntug. Governor Packard has been called from Washington to New Orleans by the death of his child, the second that has died this winter. A man named Andrew Smith, of Ft. Wayne, dropped dead, night before last, from heart diseane, at a cntircn door, which he waB about to enter. Three men were drowned in the river near Wheeling day oeioro yesterday, They were cronung in a boat, when it sank, and as neither could swim they wero lost. Mayor Powers, of Charabersburg, New Jersey, has left home under a mental ex citement m reference to his accounts, which would not balance. Experts have discovered the error, and the accounts are found correct. There is trouble in the Baltimore school Board. At a recent meeting of the City Council a member charged criminal ill timacy on the part of certain members of the board and certain leuiale teachers. No names were given, but all ie to be exposed at a future investigation. A special from Washington to the Cincinnati Gszette sayB : Some of the radi cal Republicans are evidently making preparations lor a break Willi ine administration. One of them slated Monday that nothing could benefit the party more than a row for thirty days. PoBsibly that row is to be precipitated in the speech which Eugene Hale, of Maine, is preparing as an arraignment of the Southern policy of the administration, John Reno, one of the notorious gang of Indiana, who baa been serving a term in tho Missouri Penitentiary on a charge of robbing a county treasury, and now on his way to Indiana to answer a charge against him, states that while he was in the Missouri Penitentiary, a prominent politician promised to have his sentence commuted for $1200, and the same amount in jewelry. When the commu tation was procured, Reno gave an order on the Warden for the amount, but that official had spent the money, and the pa pers were carried away. The politician got the jewelry, nnd wears the watch nt this time, neno nnaity got out Dy paying $250. A Vermont paper says: "Mr. O.N. Colby, of Danville, met with a serious accident last week while in the woods chop- ing. In cutting down a large spruce tree it fell in a contrary direction from what he intended, and' when it came down caught his leg between the butt and a log that lay near, dislocating his ankle joint and breaking tho bones so that they protruded through the Ueeh. In this Condi-tion ho was held fast and no help near. Although his cries were heard a great distance, none recognized them as of a person in distress. Finding that he was not likely to receive aesistance, he took an ax, chonned the end of the logoff, which was about twenty inches through, and thus freed himself, and then crawled on his hands and knees toward home, but had gone but a short distance before he gave up in despair. In this condition he was found by a man happening along going from the main road to the Buchanan place, who took him to his home." Richmond, Va., has a tramp sensation. Night before last, in one of the most aris & CO., A CO.) DIED. Kionoiiis At 11 a. m., February 18, Miss Marv Nicmolbs. Funeral services at the residence of Jas, Park, Mifflin townBhip, ou Wednesday, Februa-iy 20, at 11 a. m. CaiirjHTON On Tuesday morning, February l'J, 1878, at quarter past one o'clock, Jcun Cbkiuuton, in the sixty-first year of. his age. Funeral from family residence, 483 East Hound street, Wednesday, February 20, at 2 p. m. tocratic neighborhoods, where resides a family named B. T. M. Smith, with two blooming daughters aged respectively eighfeen and seventeen, a tramp entered the house after the young ladies had , retired and gone to sleep, and nicely ensconced himself in the bed between thorn. The mother of the girls, before retiring. went to the room and discovered the three fast asleep. She notified her husband, who secured a policeman and arrested the tramp, Then a scene followed, the young ladies fainting. The (ramp stated that he entered the room, and iu the darkness supposed the occupants of the bed were men, and as they were asleep he piled in and was soon asleep himself. The next morning the prisoner was taken before the Police Judge, where the man stated his name was Kelly, and that he came from Hanging Rock, Ohio. The Judge gavo him six months in jail in order to make him more particular in future as to whose apartments he retired in. A Washington special dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial of yesterday saya: Secretary Thompson on Saturday last met, by invitation, the Mouse committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department. These gentlemen were closeted for several hours in the Secretary's office, going over the alleged irregularities that have transpired in the Navy Department during the eight or nine years prior to the commence ment of Mr. Thompson's official term as Secretary of the Navy. The inquiry also embraced several acts ol the heads of Bureaus, Paymasters and other subordinate naval officers that occurred eince Mr. Thompson took office, which the Secretary had himself discovered, and to which he had direcled the attention of the committee. It appears that notwithstanding the very strict scrutiny practiced by the Secretary over the purchases made by pay directors, pay inspectors, paymasters and chiefs of the various Bureaus of the Navy Department, some of the officers have from time to time deviated from the ruleslaid down by the Secretary, and have also violated the plain letter of the law in order to subserve the interests of contractors and favorite blotters and dealers in naval supplies. Ohio. The President has appointed William R. Kurtz Postmaster at Athens. A boy named Worlhington had his arm broken while wrestling, at McArthur, on the 18th. John Brady, a brakeman, had both feet crushed by the cars at Norfolk, on the 18th inst. The Holmes County Republican, which was burned out recently, will be issued again Boon. A boy named Slam was eeriouBly wounded at Mianiisburg, on the 18th, while fooling with a pistol, Creighton's lumber yard, at Cincinnati, was burned on the night of the 18th, Loss about $4000; covered by insurance, A large pork packing and slaughtering house at Riply, was destroyed by fire on the 18th inst. Loss about $8000; mostly insured. The trial of Charles McGill, for tho murder of Mary Kelly, commenced at Cleveland yesterday, the 19th inst. His mother and three brothers arc present. General A. V, Rice, Congressman from this State, was presented with a hand-Bome gold-headed cane the other day, by two members ol tne uaiuornia delegation. Foreign. Cardinal McCloskey arrived at Qaeens-town yesterday morning. Prince BiBmarck did not participate in the ministerial llatnbeau danjj, as he was announced to do. The amount of bullion withdrawn from the Bank of England yesterday on balance, was 50,000. Ibe Itnunnza Mine Owner on Silver The financial editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, an anli silver newspaper, thinks that the supposition that the bonanza mine owners are very anxious for the passage of the Bland bill is erroneous, saying : "Most of them are producers of gold as well as silver, and in nearly equal quantities. They can easily see that in tlie event of the remonetization of the silver dollar their business will at once full to a silver basis. If the coinage be free, they will reap a temporary benefit. If the coinage be left to the Government tbey will be losers by tho operation. We will Buppose that the Government takes charge of the coinage. The Secretary of the Treasury goes into the market for fifty thousand ounces fine silver, which is coined into silver dollars. The next time he goes into the market he can use the silver dollars thus coined to pay for the second installment of fine silver, and this thing can bo repeated indefinitely. The result is a silver standard and a general derangement in commercial values, which will ever after be subject to the most violent 1 lln-tiiiinns. It' rennires only average common sense to forecast this condition of things." A Western paper noticed tho opening of a new whisky store, and the next day apologized for the brevity of its columns, because,"the reporter was ill." He as. e'atcd at the opening.